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Exploring Compulsive Buying: A Multidisciplinary Approach

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 10301

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Prof. Dr. José Manuel Otero-López

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Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, C/Xosé María Suárez Núñez, s/n, Campus Vida, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Interests: compulsive buying; occupational stress; health; personality

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The need felt and shared by both theoreticians and researchers to further the understanding of compulsive buying—given its noticeable increase in the last few decades and the important personal, social, labor and economic costs it entails—is the raison d’être of this Special Issue. The review of the state of the art reveals a complex phenomenon with multiple dimensions and a marked multicausal nature which, therefore, demands integrative approaches that allow for a variety of perspectives.  We should seek a broadness of vision that makes it possible to overcome disciplinary “turfs” by encouraging the healthy and welcome integration of ideas, concepts, research methods and strategies from different areas of work (psychology, medicine, sociology, business/marketing, neuroscience, pharmacology, anthropology, among others). From this multidisciplinary scenario, the identification of explanatory variables, as well as of other aspects (boundaries, epicenters and trajectories of the phenomenon, to mention but a few), would result in not only a better understanding of compulsive buying, but also the identification of targets that must be the focal aim of effective prevention and intervention programs.

Prof. Dr. José Manuel Otero-López
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • compulsive buying
  • personal variables
  • social and contextual variables
  • risk factors
  • epidemiology
  • cultural aspects
  • prevention
  • treatment

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What Do We Know When We Know a Compulsive Buying Person? Looking at Now and Ahead
by José Manuel Otero-López
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(18), 11232; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph191811232 - 7 Sep 2022
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Over the last few decades, research has seamlessly confirmed the marked multicausal nature of compulsive buying, since variables from different realms (e.g., family, social, and contextual domains) have demonstrated their explanatory capacity. However, it has been personality variables that have, to a greater [...] Read more.
Over the last few decades, research has seamlessly confirmed the marked multicausal nature of compulsive buying, since variables from different realms (e.g., family, social, and contextual domains) have demonstrated their explanatory capacity. However, it has been personality variables that have, to a greater extent, aroused the interest of researchers, leading to what is now a cumbersome richness of personal constructs of different nature that seem to require some arrangement under integrative frameworks. The proposal by McAdams under the suggestive title of “What do we know when we know a person?” is, in this regard, especially attractive and thought-provoking. McAdams approaches us to the person as a whole by establishing three differentiated levels (dispositional traits, personal concerns or characteristics adaptations, life story), and it will be precisely these levels that will become the structure we will use to address the state of the art on compulsive buyers. The location of the multiple personal variables analyzed at each of the levels with a common grammar will allow us to identify what it is known, as well as what remains to be done in each space. Lastly, suggestions for the future are given, with particular emphasis on advancing our understanding of the person from each of the academic vantage points but also the suitability of designing studies that integrate and/or build bridges between dispositional traits, characteristic adaptations, and life narratives. The hope is that research in the coming years satisfactorily integrates the different visions of the person to achieve a more comprehensive, nuanced portrait of a person with compulsive buying problems. Full article
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Motherhood and Treatment Outcome in Female Patients with Compulsive Buying–Shopping Disorder
by Gemma Mestre-Bach, Roser Granero, Gemma Casalé-Salayet, Fernando Fernández-Aranda, Astrid Müller, Matthias Brand, Mónica Gómez-Peña, Laura Moragas, Isabel Sánchez, Lucía Camacho-Barcia, Alejandro Villena, Milagros L. Lara-Huallipe and Susana Jiménez-Murcia
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(12), 7075; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph19127075 - 9 Jun 2022
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Motherhood has been proposed as an internal facilitating factor for the recovery of women with mental disorders. However, at the same time, there are significant barriers that may be interfering with the access and adherence to treatment for these women. The present longitudinal [...] Read more.
Motherhood has been proposed as an internal facilitating factor for the recovery of women with mental disorders. However, at the same time, there are significant barriers that may be interfering with the access and adherence to treatment for these women. The present longitudinal study aimed to deepen the sociodemographic and clinical profile of women with children and compulsive buying–shopping disorder (CBSD), and to explore the association between motherhood and response to treatment. The total sample included 77 women with a diagnosis of CBSD (n = 49 mothers) who received cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for 12 weeks. No association between psychopathology and motherhood was observed. The group of mothers reported an older age of onset of the CBSD, a lower amount of money spent per compulsive-buying episode, and a higher likelihood of family support for the CBSD. Moreover, this group showed lower risk of relapse. The findings support the theoretical proposal that considers motherhood as an internal facilitating factor for recovery and treatment adherence of mothers with addictions. Full article
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An Exploratory Study of Shopping to Relieve Tension or Anxiety in Adolescents: Health Correlates and Gambling-Related Perceptions and Behaviors
by Luis C. Farhat, Zu Wei Zhai, Rani A. Hoff, Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin and Marc N. Potenza
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(10), 6169; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph19106169 - 19 May 2022
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The desire to escape from pressures/anxiety represents an important motivation for problematic engagement with short-term rewarding behaviors that could contribute to the development of recognized and candidate behavioral addictions, including problematic shopping, a prevalent condition among youth in the U.S.A. characterized by excessive [...] Read more.
The desire to escape from pressures/anxiety represents an important motivation for problematic engagement with short-term rewarding behaviors that could contribute to the development of recognized and candidate behavioral addictions, including problematic shopping, a prevalent condition among youth in the U.S.A. characterized by excessive shopping cognitions/behaviors that lead to distress/impairment. However, to date, the specific correlates of shopping to relieve anxiety or tension have yet to be evaluated. We aimed at addressing this gap by analyzing data (N = 2556) from a high-school survey from Connecticut in an exploratory fashion. Adolescents who acknowledged experiencing a growing tension or anxiety that could only be relieved by shopping were classified as having negative-reinforcement shopping and compared to the remaining students. Data were analyzed in chi-square and logistic regression models to examine negative-reinforcement shopping in relation to socio-demographics, health correlates, gambling-related perceptions/attitudes, and problem-gambling severity/gambling behaviors. Negative-reinforcement shopping was more frequent in female and Hispanic students, was linked to more permissive gambling attitudes and at-risk/problematic gambling, and was associated with the use of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and other drugs, dysphoria/depression, and weapon-carrying and physical fighting. Taken together, these findings highlight adverse measures of health and functioning linked to negative-reinforcement shopping that may be particularly relevant to girls and Hispanic youth. Additional efforts to prevent negative outcomes are warranted. Full article
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The Relationship of Shopping-Related Decisions with Materialistic Values Endorsement, Compulsive Buying-Shopping Disorder Symptoms and Everyday Moral Decision Making
by Astrid Müller, Ekaterini Georgiadou, Annika Birlin, Nora M. Laskowski, Susana Jiménez-Murcia, Fernando Fernández-Aranda, Thomas Hillemacher, Martina de Zwaan, Matthias Brand and Sabine Steins-Loeber
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(7), 4376; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph19074376 - 5 Apr 2022
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Background: Compulsive buying-shopping disorder (CBSD) is associated with high materialistic values endorsement and excessive purchasing of consumer goods. A subgroup of individuals with CBSD engage in socially unacceptable behaviors to continue shopping despite negative consequences. This investigation aimed at exploring possible links between [...] Read more.
Background: Compulsive buying-shopping disorder (CBSD) is associated with high materialistic values endorsement and excessive purchasing of consumer goods. A subgroup of individuals with CBSD engage in socially unacceptable behaviors to continue shopping despite negative consequences. This investigation aimed at exploring possible links between ego-oriented shopping-related decisions, materialism, symptoms of CBSD and close-to-everyday moral decision making. Methods: In study 1, patients with CBSD were interviewed to develop a list of conflict situations, capturing typical shopping-related dilemmas. In study 2, the shopping-related dilemmas from study 1, standardized close-to-everyday moral dilemmas, the Material Values Scale and Pathological Buying Screener were administered to a web-based convenience sample (n = 274). Results: The main effects of a moderated hierarchical regression analysis revealed an association of more ego-oriented shopping-related decisions with both higher materialistic values endorsement and more CBSD symptoms, but not with everyday moral decision-making. However, a more egoistic everyday moral decision making style moderated the effect of CBSD symptoms on ego-oriented shopping related decisions. Conclusions: The findings indicate that a more egoistic everyday moral decision making style is not directly linked to domain-specific shopping-related decision making but strengthens the link between symptoms of CBSD and ego-oriented shopping-related decisions. Full article
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